Human Rights Not on Agenda for Upcoming Moon-Kim Summit

Yonhap News Agency reported that human rights are not on the agenda for the upcoming summit between the leaders of the two Koreas.

“The most urgent issue is the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The first goal of the inter-Korean summit is to establish peace and denuclearize the Korean Peninsula,” the official told Yonhap News Agency, asking not to be identified.

The remarks came one day after a group of some 40 nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, including Human Rights Watch, sent a letter to the South Korean president asking him to press human rights issues when he sits down with the reclusive North Korean leader on April 27 for an inter-Korean summit. Continue Reading at Yonhap News.